To Throttle Body heater or Not

Rover831

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Oct 13, 2011
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Paradise, Texas
My throttle body heater recently sprung a leak on my 2000 LR Disco. I ordered the kit to make the repair when a thought occurred to me, why!!!???? Don't most engines benefit from cold air entering the engine. Hence; the use of Cold Air Induction in high performance engines. I know I shouldn?t use land rover and high performance in the same sentence but the thought occurred to me that it might be better to just bypass the throttle body heater with a small piece of hose? After all, I don?t think it gets cold enough in Texas to need this. Thoughts?